(Co-)Creating with AI: The Artist’s View

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Conversations |&nbsp;(Co-)Creating with AI: The Artist’s View 
This panel examines how recent, much-publicized, advances in AI image-generating programs such as Midjourney and DALL·E 2 are shaping both artists’ and the publics’ imagination. How is this affecting our understanding of agency and creativity, both human and machine? To what extent can we speak of co-creation of artworks, and as AI-driven platforms become more powerful, what does this mean for art?&nbsp;
Curated in collaboration with the AI+Art program of the ETH AI Center. 
 
 
Suzanne Treister, artist, London Marguerite Humeau, artist, London Roger Wattenhofer, Professor, ETH Zurich Moderator: Jeni Fulton, Head of Editorial, Art Basel Suzanne Treister has been a pioneer in the new media field from the early 1990s, making work about emerging technologies, developing avatars and fictional worlds. The relationship between new technologies, society, alternative belief systems and the potential futures of humanity constitutes an ongoing focus of her work. Recent projects include: 7th Athens Biennale, Greece; Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland; 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts; Kunstmuseum Appenzell, Switzerland (2021); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. She also received the 2018 Collide International Residency Award at CERN, and the exhibition. Treister is represented by Annely Juda Fine Art, London and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York.
Marguerite Humeau’s recent solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; New Museum, New York; Tate Britain, London; Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; Nottingham Contemporary; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Kunstverein in Hamburg and Museion, Bolzano. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including the 59th Venice Biennale; 23rd Biennale of Sydney; the High Line, New York; Château de Versailles; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Centre Pompidou, Paris; MAMVP, Paris; Serpentine Galleries, London; Istanbul Biennial; Kunsthalle Basel; Victoria and Albert Museum, and FRAC Midi- Pyrénées,Toulouse. Humeau is represented by White Cube and CLEARING New York/Brussels/Los Angeles. 
Roger Wattenhofer is a professor at ETH Zurich, Switzer­land. He also worked multiple years at Microsoft Research, Brown University, and Macquarie University respectively. His work received multiple awards, e.g. the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing. He published the book Blockchain Science: Distributed Ledger Technology (2016), which has been translated to Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese. He frequently publishes at the top machine learning conferences, and teaches a class on generative artificial intelligence. 
Dr Jeni Fulton is Art Basel’s Head of Editorial, leading the art fair’s digital magazine, Stories. She obtained her PhD on the subject of “Value and evaluation in 21st Century Art” from the Humboldt University in Berlin and read Philosophy at the University of Cambridge for her undergraduate degree. She lectures on the art market, contemporary art history, and art and technology at Zurich’s University of the Arts (ZHdK), and teaches in the Executive Master’s in Art Market Studies at the University of Zurich. 
 
The Art Basel 2023 Conversations program is curated by Emily Butler. Coordination and support: Arianna Guidi.